Bonds trial: Jurors deliberating for third day

SAN FRANCISCO
— The jurors weighing the Barry Bonds perjury case have returned for a third day of deliberations.

The eight women and four men closed the door to the jury room Tuesday morning and will again try to reach a verdict on the four charges pending against Bonds.

The jury failed to decide the matter after deliberating all day Friday and Monday.

Bonds is charged with three counts of lying to a grand jury in 2003 and one count of obstruction. Prosecutors allege that Bonds lied when he denied knowingly taking steroids and human growth hormone. A third count of making a false statement alleges that Bonds lied when he said that no one other than his doctor ever injected him with anything.

The fourth charge is a catchall count of obstruction, which alleges that MLB’s all-time home runs leader hindered the grand jury’s sports doping investigation by lying.